Social Labour Party (1996)

The Social Labour Party (, PST) was a Brazilian political party. Founded in 1983, with the publication of its manifesto and statute, it received permanent registration in 1990 and, three years later, merged with the Renewal Labour Party (PTR), creating the Progressive Party. The party was recreated in 1994 and contested every election from then until 2003, the year in which it was merged into the Liberal Party.

According to one of its leaders, Dalmo Honaiser, the PST was a centre-right party based on the alliance between medium and small entrepreneurs, liberal professionals and workers. The party's manifesto included support for medium and small businesses, the strengthening of democratic institutions and the progressive taxation of unproductive land as a means of carrying out agrarian reform.

History

The Social Labour Party was founded in 1983, when it first applied for registration with the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and its manifesto and statute were published. Frustrated by the rejection, the party made a new attempt after the approval of Constitutional Amendment No. 25 in May 1985, which allowed unregistered parties to run candidates in the next municipal elections under provisional registration. However, an internal dispute between two of the party's main leaders, Dalmo Honaiser and Altemir Pessoa Figliuolo, who submitted simultaneous applications to the TSE, made registration impossible.

In January 1989, an application submitted by Honaiser was approved, and the PST was granted provisional registration. That same year, it participated in the coalition supporting the presidential candidate Fernando Collor de Mello, from the National Reconstruction Party, as did the Social Christian Party and the Renewal Labour Party (PTR). From May to June 1990, the PST organized its first national convention and obtained permanent registration from the TSE.

Under the presidency of Marcilio Duarte, the party welcomed some important figures, such as Espírito Santo Senator José Ignacio Ferreira and television presenter Sílvio Santos, whose candidacy for governor of São Paulo was considered but never materialized. Before participating in parliamentary elections, the PST was represented by 20 state deputies and, in the National Congress, by 12 federal deputies and two senators. These numbers were reduced to 15 state deputies and just two federal deputies with the advent of the 1990 election.

In 1991, Marcilio Duarte welcomed former Paraná governor Alvaro Dias, who soon rose to the position of national president. Under his leadership, the party once again received congressmen from other parties. In October 1992, a parliamentary bloc was formed between the PST and the PTR — then chaired by the governor of the Federal District, Joaquim Roriz

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